Electric Girl (2019)

Electric Girl: Directed by Ziska Riemann. With Victoria Schulz, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Björn von der Wellen, Svenja Jung. Mia, who lends her voice to a Japanese Anime super heroine, finds reality and fiction to be interlacing more and more. Suddenly, Mia can see electricity, leap off rooftops and save people’s lives.

“John Carpenter shows how much he loves the 1951 original by giving it the utmost respect that he possibly could, the only difference here is that Carpenter chooses to stick to the paranoiac core of John W Campbell Jru0026#39;s short story.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe secret to this versionu0026#39;s success is the unbearable tension that builds up as the group of men become suspicious of each other, the strain of literally waiting to be taken over takes a fearful hold. Carpenter then manages to deliver the shocks as well as the mystery thatu0026#39;s needed to keep the film heading in the right direction.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBe it an horrific scene or a u0026quot;what is in the shadowu0026quot; sequence, the film is the perfect fusion of horror and sci-fi. The dialogue is laced with potency and viability for a group of men trying to keep it together under such duress, while Ennio Morriconeu0026#39;s score is a wonderful eerie pulse beat that further racks up the sense of doom and paranoia seaming throughout the film.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe cast are superb, a solid assembly line of actors led by Carpenter favourite Kurt Russell, whilst the effects used around the characters get the right amount of impact needed. But most of all itu0026#39;s the ending that is the crowning glory, an ending that doesnu0026#39;t pander to the norm and is incredibly fitting for what has gone on before it. Lets wait and see what happens indeed. 10/10”